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Month Ten: Shelter in Place and Evacuation Planning
Most people are familiar with shelter in place and evacuation planning from grade school. We practiced tornado drills and knelt in the hallways with head...
Month Nine: Program Plans and Vital Records
Program Plans and Vital Records Even in the height of electronic communications, not all program files are electronic these days and some are very important...
Month Eight: Team Preparedness
Our mantra is ‘make a plan, pack a bag, take action!’ This applies to students, faculty and staff whether you are at home, at work, in the car – everywhere! No matter what your role at NC State, our team members are our most important resource. Individual preparedness is a huge deal as teams are only as prepared as the sum of its parts. If something happens at home and you are unable to come to work, what’s the preventative planning and who back fills you? Can we make sure this person knows that need to cover and knows their roles so they know how to implement them?Month Seven: Identify Your Technology Options
Continuing in the Information Technology (IT) realm of planning, in month six, we detailed the IT systems and applications that are used daily to support the services and mission of your unit, and that would be used to drive your critical functions. Now we shift to addressing how to maximize alternate options for IT functions should an event limit access to files or destroy equipment. Additionally, if the IT realm is down on campus, what can you do remotely?
Month Six: Identify your IT needs
Let’s talk tech or IT or Information Technology or all those devices we have come to assume will always be there, be ready and be...
Month Five: Review your Critical Functions
Review your Critical Functions At the end of each year, it’s a great time to reflect on the past months and see where things stand....
Month Four: Supporting your Critical Functions
Build your PACK Ready Plan in a Year (Total estimated time: 4 – 6 hours) In our Year of PACK Ready Planning, we are one...
Month Three: Identify Critical Functions
Identifying Critical Functions Month one, we identified who needs to be connected when emergencies happen. This completed updates to phone trees, email groups and started...